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I’ve installed Oracle Application Server quite a few times and today I had to perform another one. After I installed the application server I tried to login to the console but was greeted by a lovely message:

Oops! This link appears to be broken.

The apache error logs showed:

File does not exist: /u01/app/oracle/product/apps1013/Apache/Apache/htdocs/em/console

The access log:

"GET /em/console HTTP/1.1" 404 342

It turns out, while installing the application server I forgot to select a check box which designated the server as an administrator instance.

In a single instance environment, such as the one I am setting up, you need to select this option to be able to manage the instance. If this was a node in a cluster, you should only designate one instance as the administration instance.

So what do you do if you forgot to select it like I did? Nothing to worry about, you just need to edit two files: